Welcome to the United Way of Marquette County

Kimme Peterson and Debbie Hatcher 2008 - 2009 Campaign Co-Chairs

Click here to watch the 2008 Campaign video

The United Way of Marquette County brings together the many faces of our community-volunteers from business, industry, education, public, private, for-profit and not-for-profit to achieve our mission to: Focus community resources to meet community needs.

We're located in the Lakeview Arena Building, just inside the middle entrance at 401 E. Fair Avenue, Marquette, Michigan 49855

Phone: (906) 226-8171 Fax (906) 226-7050 unitedway@uwmqt.org

A Brief History of United Way of Marquette County

United Way of Marquette County has been in existence since 1943. At that time, the organization was called the Community Chest.

In 1994, United Way of Marquette County changed to the current Community Investment (formerly called allocations) process and began offering the option of donor-designated gifts. Since that time, United Way of Marquette County has raised more that $3 million dollars to fund a vast array of health and human services.

The community investment process involves citizen volunteers reviewing program-funding requests for five key community impact areas. The areas include basic needs, domestic violence and substance abuse, youth programs, health, and elderly citizens and adults with disabilities. These challenge areas were determined from the results of a needs assessment completed in 1994 and again in 2000 by the Alger-Marquette Human Services Coordinating Body.

United Way of Marquette County continues to allocate funds through a volunteer-driven process and to offer donor designations. The next challenge lies in focusing affiliated agencies and organizations on outcomes-based measurement to best illustrate impact in the community.